The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, Volume 24

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Page 67In World War I Hitchcock was a combat aviator with the Lafayette Escadrille, a
French unit composed of volunteers from the U.S. A fighter group commander in
the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, he was killed in an air crash while ...

Page 124Later, he headed Mississippi flood relief activities (1927) and also participated in
post-World War II famine relief work in Europe. In 1921 Hoover began a new
career in public service as secretary of commerce under successive Republican
...

Page 951First mentioned in 1095, Kursk was razed to the ground in the Tatar invasion
Monument to World War II dead in Kursk city. Russian S.F.S.R. Vance
HentyiAlpra Photo; of 1240 and was not rebth until 1586. Now an important
agricultural centre, ...